'Poising Chromatin" Topic of CIB Talk Thursday, April 16

The Utah State University Center for Integrated BioSystems welcomes Bradley Cairns from the University of Utah to campus Thursday, April 16. Cairns will present a lecture “Poising Chromatin: Gene Packaging and DNA Demethylation in Germ Cells, ES Cells and Embryos,” at 3:30 p.m. in the Merrill-Cazier Library, room 154. All are welcome to attend the free lecture.

Cairns is a professor of oncological sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine and investigator with the Huntsman Cancer Institute. He is interested in how chromatin structure helps regulate gene transcription. His lab purifies and characterizes large protein complexes that remodel and modify chromosomal structure. He and his colleagues use genetic, biochemical and genomic methods to understand the functions of these chromatin-regulatory complexes in living cells. He received a doctorate from Stanford and worked in the laboratory of Roger Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.

 

Collaboration between the USU Center for Integrated BioSystems, Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences and the Institute for Antiviral Research, along with the College of Agriculture, provides support for guest speakers and this seminar series.

 

Registrations are also being accepted for multi-day on-campus training programs in the areas of animal cell cultures, microbial fermentation, gene expression, downstream processing and bioinformatics. For more information on any of these programs, visit USU’s Center for Integrated BioSystems Web site.

 

 

Contact: Kamal Rashid, 435-797-2739, kamal.rashid@usu.edu
Contact: John Morrey, 435-797-2622, john.morrey@usu.edu
Writer: Jeannine Huenemann, 435-797-8274, jeannine.huenemann@usu.edu